Jean Piaget
1896-1980 (Switzerland)
Believed children learn through interacting with their environment
Doing vs. Product
Most learning in not intentional. Happens in stages
Influenced the way children and educated in America
Stage One: Sensory-Motor Stage Birth- Age 2
Explore the world through senses & mobility
Schema (mental model)
Assimilation
Accommodation
Emerging object permanence
Stage Two: Pre-Operational Stage Ages 2-7
One relationship at a time
Symbolic Play/animism
Egocentric
1st dreams/night terrors
Language leaps!
Stage Three: Concrete Operations Ages 7-11
Child begins to “do in their head”
Mastery of conservation
Two relationships at a time
Ego-centrism diminishes
Stage Four: Formal Operations Ages: 11+
Reason about abstract things
Critical judgment of others
“Think” about thoughts
How does our thinking develop?
Jean Piaget
1896-1980 (Switzerland)
Believed children learn through interacting with their environment
Doing vs. Product
Most learning in not intentional. Happens in stages
Influenced the way children and educated in America
Stage One: Sensory-Motor Stage Birth- Age 2
Explore the world through senses & mobility
Schema (mental model)
Assimilation
Accommodation
Emerging object permanence
Stage Two: Pre-Operational Stage Ages 2-7
One relationship at a time
Symbolic Play/animism
Egocentric
1st dreams/night terrors
Language leaps!
Stage Three: Concrete Operations Ages 7-11
Child begins to “do in their head”
Mastery of conservation
Two relationships at a time
Ego-centrism diminishes
Stage Four: Formal Operations Ages: 11+
Reason about abstract things
Critical judgment of others
“Think” about thoughts